Accident Victims Commonly Suffer From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
I used to have to hang things in particular ways and by touching Vitobrain
Review the clothes in certain ways or manners. Behavioural compulsions here included the touching of clothes (others were involved but we'll keep things relatively short here). My therapist exposed me to this problem that I had. By 'exposing' here I mean that she literally went out to the clothesline with me and made me hang out clothes (exposed me to my problem). This also included experimenting a bit such as hanging shirts up-side-down, the "wrong" way around or whatever.
As the name "exposure and response prevention" implies, the next stage comes the prevention of the response and for me here it meant that I had to prevent myself from touching all the clothes unnecessarily. One part of what I felt like I had to do (and I did [previously]) was put my fingers in all of the sleeves of t-shirts and so-forth to make sure that they were perfectly hung. It is clearly way above or different to perfectionist traits (this topic can be expanded on at a later stage).
It was clearly excessive an it was absolutely ridiculous in my mind but I just couldn't help doing it (before I got treatment). So, I was exposed to an obsessive act that I was having problems with and then prevented from responding to my obsessive desire/drive through compulsive acts (I was exposed and 'prevented').Treatment went far beyond this and it came in the form of cognitive therapy or CT which we''ll look at in more detail at another time.
As the name "exposure and response prevention" implies, the next stage comes the prevention of the response and for me here it meant that I had to prevent myself from touching all the clothes unnecessarily. One part of what I felt like I had to do (and I did [previously]) was put my fingers in all of the sleeves of t-shirts and so-forth to make sure that they were perfectly hung. It is clearly way above or different to perfectionist traits (this topic can be expanded on at a later stage).
It was clearly excessive an it was absolutely ridiculous in my mind but I just couldn't help doing it (before I got treatment). So, I was exposed to an obsessive act that I was having problems with and then prevented from responding to my obsessive desire/drive through compulsive acts (I was exposed and 'prevented').Treatment went far beyond this and it came in the form of cognitive therapy or CT which we''ll look at in more detail at another time.
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